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8 months ago

grief makes you want to die every single day. but you don’t.

Tulips in a Milk Carton (detail)
Paul Wonner, 1989

you go on with what’s left of your life. you make the bed every morning.

you take out the trash. you buy your weekly groceries.

and as you inspect which milk carton looks the least wonky,

you realise this is how to kill yourself without breaking your mother’s heart—

you go on with what’s left of your life.

L. V., i found this poem grieving in aisle 3

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